Normally, the judges responsible for scoring include at least eighth-tier experts among their ranks.
They only need to give scores without providing explanations.
After all, given their experience, evaluating fifth or sixth-tier students who haven’t yet seen the frontlines is more than enough—there’s no room for misjudgment.
Even if some subjective bias might creep into their scoring—since humans aren’t machines, and absolute fairness is impossible—the average score would still be roughly accurate.
This year, Jiangxia had over four thousand martial examinees.
There’s no way each of them could receive personalized comments.
Do you think they’re just a bunch of lousy writers?
Besides, even the worst writer could only manage four thousand words a day at most.
The reason these two stood out was because Guardian Jiang personally gave them scores and comments.
This made their evaluations far more valuable than the others’.
It might even become a hot topic before the third phase of testing began.
……
After confirming her victory, Liu Yuan leaped lightly off the stage.
Despite the ongoing chatter around her, she paid no attention.
She walked straight through the exit tunnel.
Within a hundred meters, she couldn’t sense Su Qi’s presence.
So she took out her phone, her slender fingers tapping the screen a few times.
【Iris: Brother, where are you?】
Within seconds, her screen lit up.
Su Qi replied almost instantly.
【Sleepyhead: Last row of the audience seats, near the exit.】
Liu Yuan’s expression instantly brightened.
She weaved through the noisy crowd, searching for that familiar figure.
Finally, in the corner of the stands—
“Brother~”
She dashed over with a bright smile, looking like an entirely different person from the cold, expressionless fighter on the stage.
“The cards you made for me are amazing! Even though my opponent was a tier above me, they couldn’t fight back at all.”
Su Qi reached out and gently ruffled her hair.
“I saw. But…”
“But what?” Liu Yuan tilted her head, a mix of anticipation and unease in her eyes, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of her clothes.
Anyone would know—no matter how nice the first half of a sentence sounds, once “but” follows, everything before it becomes meaningless, just a setup for the second half.
Especially since Su Qi hadn’t even praised her.
“No more playing with your phone during matches,” Su Qi said, his tone carrying a hint of helplessness. “Focus. At least show your opponent some respect.”
Liu Yuan pouted.
“…I just wanted to finish quickly so I could find you.”
Su Qi sighed softly and dropped the subject.
What’s it like having an overly clingy little sister?
Su Qi couldn’t quite explain it.
He wasn’t sure if it was good or bad.
Well, whatever.
It wasn’t like he needed this silly girl to stand on her own just yet.
She had a protective charm on her anyway—she wouldn’t be easily harmed.
Though he wasn’t sure about the exact strength of that ‘Abyss’ card, Su Qi estimated it had to be at least eleventh or even twelfth-tier.
Even if Liu Yuan’s physical limits prevented it from unleashing its full power, it should still be enough to thrash Guardian Jiang, right?
Otherwise, what was the point of all the points he’d spent and the countless hours of training?
Basically, as long as she didn’t run into an Invoker summoning a ‘Deity,’ this silly girl wouldn’t face any real danger within Great Xia.
But speaking of which—why hadn’t he gotten any 【Pleasure】 points today?
That didn’t make sense.
He’d even squeezed in two training sessions before the match!
Had the points dried up?
Or had the threshold for gaining 【Pleasure】 increased?
Su Qi felt he needed to investigate further.
A stable source of points wasn’t something to take lightly.
After some thought, he stood up. “Let’s go home.”
……
The streets were bustling, filled with people and endless streams of cars.
The two walked side by side, weaving through the crowd, moving against the tide of noise.
Liu Yuan glanced at Su Qi. He’d been unusually quiet for a while now.
“Brother, what’s on your mind?”
Su Qi shook his head lightly. “Nothing.”
It was only around two in the afternoon, yet the streets were packed with hurried pedestrians.
After a moment of silence, a strange thought crossed Su Qi’s mind—if he hadn’t awakened his special talent that day, he might have ended up just like them.
Going to school, taking exams, working, raising a family—repeating the same cycle day after day until the end.
“Brother?” Liu Yuan called out again when Su Qi fell into thought once more.
“It’s nothing,” Su Qi said, snapping out of it. “I was just thinking… most people’s life paths are set from the very beginning.”
“Changing it… is too hard.”
Most are confined by their family’s expectations, walking the same paths their parents did—or the ones their parents deemed ‘better’—generation after generation, in an endless loop.
“So…?” Liu Yuan tilted her head.
Why was this dummy suddenly getting so philosophical?
Had seeing all these poor, overworked office workers triggered some deep reflection?
“So, I was wondering if sleeping in every day is a waste of my time…”
Liu Yuan: ???
Out of all the possible serious topics, she hadn’t expected this to be the one he’d dwell on.
She stretched onto her tiptoes, trying to feel his forehead.
But thanks to their height difference, she fell just short.
So she gave a tiny hop.
Finally, her fingers brushed his forehead—just for a split second.
But his temperature seemed normal. No fever.
Tentatively, she asked, “Maybe… you should change your username first?”
Su Qi blinked. “Why?”
Liu Yuan gave him the same confused look any freshly adult girl would. “Huh? Didn’t you just say you’re wasting your life?”
Su Qi nodded seriously. “Right. So, if we’re both sleeping, why can’t we just count it as one person’s time?”
Liu Yuan: ???
Is that how math works?!
And you’re seriously contemplating this nonsense after all that deep thinking?!
【Pleasure +999】
Seeing the points finally appear, Su Qi’s worries vanished.
Good. His little sister wasn’t broken yet.
…Wait, no—his special ability was still functioning.
Maybe after so many training sessions, the threshold for gaining 【Pleasure】 from Liu Yuan had increased.
It seemed he needed to adjust his tactics.
Perhaps… try something a little more unconventional?
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
